Sharp County record., 1887-09-15

| MUCH interest Is lelO Ia - -r.,LI
| gland at the trial to take place at Mltcner
town, Ireland, of William OBrien, tor al
legged violation of the Crimes act.
THE West Meath Qreland) magistrates
| sitting at Glassan, have sentenced Eul'or
HAYDEN of the West Meath Examiner 10
three months, Imprisonment for obstruct'
ing the police during the recent eylctionS'
Mr.. Hayden has appealed and has Deen
released on bail.
AprHRrsHoP WALSH of Dublin in
letter published on the Sth, says the lrlsh
land question is a commercial ana noC
politicaI matter. He declares Lord Asn-
bourne's scheme to be the most sultaDle
one that has yet been passed.
THE anniversary of the Battle OF Cha-
pultepec was observed at the City OF
| Mexico on the Sth, with the usual ceremo-
nies and speech-making, the orators d"eH'
ing on the gallantry of the unfortunates
| who fell in the battle against the Ameri'
| can troops.
THE bank examiner investigating the
affairs of the Biddleford (Me.) Savings In
| stitution, which was robbed by young
| McNeilly, states that he will make an Of
fetal statement of the banks condition by
| September II. He considers that the BANK
will have surplus of 100000.
AT three O'Clock on the morning Oh the
Sth Jacob Albiec, a well-to-do citizen, OF
Omaha, Neb., shothis wife and then killed
himself. The wife was shot in the right
breast, the ball going through her body
and lodging under the skin below the right
shoulder. She was alive at last accounts
JOHN GALE, aged forty, was struck on
the temple by a base ball while crossing
a field in the suburbs of Brooklyn, on the
Sth, where some boys were playing and
died the same night. Charles Miller, who
batted the ball, has been arrested.
The Hotel Arlington at SaegertoWn,
Pa, six miles north of Meadville, erected
last spring at cost of $25O,OO0, was en-.
tirely destroyed by fire on the morning OF
the Sth. The fire broke out in the kitchen.
The guests, twenty-five in number, barely
escaped, saving nothing. The house con-
tainad sixty-fve rooms.
| A.DIsPATCH from London, Ont, says:
"Israel Lucas, the defaulting treasurer OF
Auglaize County, O., who absconded Au-
gust 27 last with $31 900, is supposed to be
| in this city with his second wife, who fied
with him to Canada, and Detective John
| I. Norris is here on their trial"
HENRY BECKER, aged seventy, was shot
and fatally wounded at Shenandoah, Pa,
on the Sth, by Nicholas Knebels The lat
ter had been paying unwelcome attention
to Becker's daughter, and was ordered out
of the house, but refused to go, and during
a scuffle Becker was shot. There is not
much hope of Becker's recovery.
A ST. JOHNS (Newfoundland) special OF
the Sth says: "Reports daily arriving
from all parts of the country go to show
that the gale of the 2jth of August was
one that will long be remembered for the
loss of life and the extent of damage suS-
tanned from it,"
IT is stated semi officially that the Rus
sian Government, not obtaining the assent
of the Powers to the proposed mission OF
General Ernroth, will endeavor to gain the
adhesion of the European powers to other
plans for the settlement of the Bulgarian
question.
THE Guion steamer Wisconsin landed at
New York, on the Sth, 4l6 Mormon pas
sengers, all Of whom left Immediately
for Utah. They were in charge OF John
Isaacs Hart, of Utah, who has brought
over three like parties before. In tne
present lot are III English, r75 Scss,,r'srr'
navians and small number OF Germans.
DURING the tornado in the Schoharie val
ley, n. Y, on the 7th, several persons were
injured. Hop yards were devastated,
crops were ruined and some stock killed.
Fifty barns were unroofed, and Alfred G.
Giford's house at Shuthborne was de-
moished.
THE Sociaiistic seceders from the United
Labor party met in New York on the night
of the Sth and agreed to call themselves
the Progressive Labor party. William
Penn Rogers presided, and about two hun
dred delegates from ward associations
were present. The old Central Labor
Union platform was adopted.